^ I'd be watching the donkey too... my daughter has an inate fear of them since as kids they were petting and feeding some when a late arrival lent over and bit her a good one to show his displeasure at missing out.

I didn't know that British newspapermen look like Russians from the 1970's.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

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"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

If you want him back here to face charges of insider trading over the Viglen affair, don't sign. But frankly the SFO isn't worth the expectation, the hope. So leave him in the USA and hope someone shoots him.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

If you want him back here to face charges of insider trading over the Viglen affair, don't sign. But frankly the SFO isn't worth the expectation, the hope. So leave him in the USA and hope someone shoots him.

Exactly. Better the devil you haven't got than the one you might have possibly facing insider trading charges but not realistically.

Much better to keep him over there with a million heavily armed lunatics

I'm well aware that both petitions will achieve nothing but it would still amuse me to see Obama stand up and say 'We're not deporting him. In other news, we don't want to keep him but he can stay'

Too old to give up but too young to rest - Pete Townshend

I would rather be a rising ape than a falling angel - Sir Terry Pratchett

I liked his explanation about what brought him to chemistry as much as the video itself - pieces o'nine

daftbeaker wrote:Much better to keep him over there with a million heavily armed lunatics

Actually, it's probably more like 80 million heavily armed lunatics.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickWhat happens when all the renewable energy runs out?-- Victoria AylingEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré